Improvement in saw-sets



UNITED i STATES y PATENT OFFICE.

`.TOEN LYLE, OE NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, AssreNoR To HrMsELE AND A COTTON H. ALLEN, OE SAME PLAGE.

IMPROVEMENT IN SAW-SETS.

Specification forming part of Letters PatentNo. 57,044, dated August 7, 1866.

To all whom et may concern: Be it known that I, JOHN LYLE, of Newark, in the county7 of Essex and State of N ew J ersey, have invented a new and Improved Saw- Set, and I do herebyT declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in whieh'-` Figure l is atop Or plan view of my improved saw-set. Fig. 2 is a view of thelefthand side of Fig. l, partlyin section through the line Fig. 3 is a View Ot' theright-hand side ot' Fig. 1, the handles beingbroken oft'.

Similar letters of reference indicate `like parts.

My inventionhas for its object `the furnishing an improved saw-set by means of which a saw may be set much or little without the possibility of Warpingthe blade or setting the teeth untrue, even though the tool be used by a boy or inexperienced workman; and it con sists Of asaW-set 4constructed and arranged as l hereinafter more fully described.

A and `B are the handles Ot the saw-set, which are pivoted to each otherin the ordinary manner, Athe handle A terminating in a punch, (t, which bends down Or sets the sawteeth by pressing them down over a shoulder formed on the bar Z1, in which thehandle B terminates. C is a'set-screw, by which the amount of set given to the saw-teeth may be regulated. D is spring, by which the handles A and B are thrown apart, raising the punch a from the `saw-tooth after it` has eompleted its work and the pressure has` beenremoved from the said handles. E is an ad* justable gage, secured to the bar b by the set-screw `F passing through a slot in said gage, and securing it `to the said'bar in the position required by the size of the teeth of the saw. The teeth of the saw G rest against the heads of the soft-metal bolts H, which Figs. l and 3, for convenience in replacing the l bolts H when required.

[is a guard secured to one side of the upright part of the gage E, and made adjustable by a setscrew, J, passing through a slot in said guard Land having an arm,t', extending across the face of the gage E and barb, as shown in Figs. land 2. The object-I of this guard I t' is to hold the sawblade always in the same `position on the face of the bar b and gage E While the teeth are being set, so that the blade may be kept from warping and the teeth may all have the same set.

By this" tool, when the gage E has been arranged according tO the size of the ,saw-

teeth, the guard I t' according' to the thickness of the saw-blade, and the set-screw C arranged so that the punch a may give the desired set to the teeth, a boy Or an unskillful workman can set a saw readily and correctly, giving to allthe teeth the same set.

.l claim as new and desire to secure. by Letters Patent- A saw-setconstructed and arral-iged sub-- stantially as herein described, and for the purpose set forth. I

The above specification of my invention signed by me this 2d day "Of January, i866.

, JOHN LYL'E.

Witnesses J AMEs T. GRAHAM, M. M. LIVINGSTON. 

